Parents Of Teen Killed At Southwood Middle Chronicle Pain In Book

Jorge and Maria Gough penned a book about their son Jaime, who was killed in the bathroom of Southwood Middle School by a classmate in 2004. (CBS4)

PALMETTO BAY (CBS4) – The family of a boy brutally murdered at his middle school 9 years ago has released a book recounting the tragedy, the years that led up to it, and the heartache that followed.

Jorge and Maria Gough told their story to Jason Wood, the author of the book “From Fighting to Forgiving: Learning to Let Go”.

The Goughs’ son Jaime was stabbed to death at Southwood Middle School in February 2004.

“I realized that by holding onto my anger, hate and pain, I was losing myself,” Jorge Gough said in the book. “I came to the point where life started to exist for the sole purpose of hating another person. A change had to take place.”

For the Goughs, finding forgiveness was the catalyst for that change.

“It’s difficult to forget that day,” Maria Gough told CBS 4’s Lauren Pastrana. “That call that we received that day was awful.”

The mother admitted there were days following her son’s murder when she wanted to die.

In the immediate days, weeks and months following Jaime’s death, the Goughs struggled.